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Prince Arora

Associate
CalgaryToronto
About

Prince Arora is an associate in DLA Piper's Tax group, where he maintains a broad tax practice ‎that includes both tax planning and tax disputes resolution. Prince advises clients on the tax ‎aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and ‎reorganizations, inbound and outbound investments, corporate finance and capital ‎market transactions, and international tax matters, including the application of the Global Minimum Tax Act.  ‎

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Prince practised at a prominent global law firm and a national law firm. He also served as a judicial law clerk at the Tax Court of Canada. ‎

Prince is currently on the steering committee of the Canadian Tax Foundation Young Practitioners. ‎

Areas of FocusTaxTransactional TaxTax Controversy and DisputesInternational Tax and StructuringInternational Corporate ReorganizationsCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsEnergy and Natural Resources
Bar admissions / Professional QualificationsAlberta, 2021British Columbia, 2020
Languages
  • English
  • Punjabi
  • Hindi

AWARDS

  • Deans List, Peter A. Allard School of Law (UBC)
  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP A.J. McClean Prize in Trusts
  • Koffman Kalef LLP Prize in Business Law
  • Thorsteinssons Prize in Taxation I
  • Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Prize in Contracts Law
  • Dean's Prize in Constitutional Law
     
Education
  • J.D., Business Law Concentration, Peter A. Allard School of Law ‎‎(University of British Columbia), 2019‎

  • B.A., Kwantlen ‎Polytechnic University, 2015‎

Publications

  • Co-Author, "Paragraph 88(1)(d): Bump Basics for Young Practitioners," Canadian Tax Foundation: Young Practitioners Focus Conference Paper, September 2025
  • Author, ‎"FCA: Break Fees Are Taxable Under Paragraph 12(1)(x)," Canadian Tax Focus, Volume 14, Number 2, May ‎‎2024
  • ‎Author, "FCA Applies Deans Knight in Another Loss-Utilization Case," Canadian Tax Focus, Volume 14, Number 1, ‎February 2024
  • Co-Author, ‎"The Impact of Expanded CRA Audit Powers on TCC Appeals," Canadian Tax Focus, Volume ‎‎12, Number 3, August 2022
  • Co-Author, ‎"Collins Trust - The End of Equity?," Tax Times, Thomson Reuters, 2022 Issue No. 14, July ‎‎2022
  • Co-Author, ‎"Election Amendments: Some Best-Practice Considerations Election Amendments: Some Best-Practice ‎Considerations," Canadian Tax Focus, May 2022
  • Author, ‎"Pleading Sham?," Tax Times, Thomson Reuters, 2021 Issue No. 23, December 2021

Seminars

  • Co-Presenter, "Paragraph 88(1)(d): Bump Basics for Young Practitioners," Canadian Tax Foundation: Young Practitioners Focus Conference, September 3, 2025
  • Co-Presenter, ‎"An Overview of the EIFEL Rules," webinar, Canadian Bar Association (Alberta), Tax Law ‎Section – South, December 7, 2023

Community Involvement

  • Member, Canadian Tax Foundation Young Practitioners' Steering Committee
  • Director, Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (Western Chapter)
  • Director, Bow Valley Hockey Society

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Canadian Tax Foundation ‎
  • International Fiscal Association  ‎
  • Canadian Petroleum Tax Society
  • Canadian Bar Association ‎
  • The Advocates’ Society ‎

My latest insights

Publication

Canada’s Productivity Mega Deduction: what businesses need to know

18 September 2026 .5 minute read

Publication

Finance releases revised second package of hybrid mismatch rules

10 August 2026 .3 minute read

News

DLA Piper advises Aurion Resources in its acquisition by Agnico Eagle

18 June 2026 .2 minute read

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